Word: tenementation
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...NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "The Tenement" follows the fortunes-such as they are-of nine Negro families in a Chicago slum, from last year's long, hot summer to their eviction early this month to make way for an urban renewal project...
...white parties in Greenwich Village pads. He knows every malodorous inch of the eight-block Harlem area that is the Playboys' turf, and he has earned the nickname "King" by taking over the leadership of the gang from Raven, who had fatally misjudged a leap from one tenement rooftop to another...
John Doe, 47, a tenement-dwelling Midwesterner in hock to the corner delicatessen, pursues solvency at the horse parlor and the poker table. His purpose is exemplary: he wants to move his seven-year-old son, dying of epilepsy, to a desert climate. A soft-hearted stud dealer pledges the necessary pot but dies before delivering. Doe next touches a baker's doughy widow, to whom he has previously applied for favors of another order; she indignantly draws the line at moneylending. Eventually, Doe's own wife stakes him, unsolicited. And off he flies with Junior, into...
...sweltering day in July 1912, Nurse Sanger threaded her way through pushcarts to a cramped flat in a Grand Street tenement. Sadie Sachs, 28, wife of a truck driver and mother of three, was near death as the result of a self-induced abortion. She pleaded with Nurse Sanger and the doctor: "Another baby will finish me. What can I do to prevent it?" The doctor's gruff reply: "Tell Jake to sleep on the roof." Three months later, Sadie Sachs was dead-of another self-induced abortion. Margaret Sanger had a cause...
Papa Levenson's career was the very opposite of the standard American success story at the beginning of the century. He used to start with money and end up broke. This made life pretty grim in the squalid East Harlem tenement in Manhattan where Papa, a Russian-Jewish immigrant tailor, had settled Mama and his eight kids. But somehow the Levensons never despaired about waging their own American Revolution in the fourth floor back. Particularly Mama. When things looked blackest, she would start a fire in the stove, put a pot of water on to boil...